All posts tagged "Koreatimes"

  • An artist's rendering provided by Carson2gether on April 23, 2015 shows the interior a proposed stadium that would house both the Chargers and the Raiders NFL football teams in Carson, Calif. (AP)
    Chargers to stay in San Diego in 2016

    SAN DIEGO (AP) — Chargers Chairman Dean Spanos said Friday that the team will play in San Diego in 2016, and he’ll work with politicians and the business community to try to resolve a long, bitter battle...

    • Posted January 29, 2016
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  • Bac Duong, 43, surrendered to Santa Ana police on Friday after escaping from an Orange County jailhouse. (Orange County Sheriff's Department)
    Authorities: 1 of 3 fugitive inmates arrested in California

    SANTA ANA, Calif. (AP) — Police arrested one of three violent fugitive inmates on Friday after he told a woman in the same city where the jailbreak occurred a week ago that he wanted to surrender, authorities...

    • Posted January 29, 2016
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    S. Korea’s rice consumption hits all-time low in 2015

    SEJONG (Yonhap) — Per capita rice consumption in South Korea hit a record low in 2015 as people added other types of grain products to their diet, government data showed Friday. The average annual consumption of rice...

    • Posted January 29, 2016
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  • Itaewon
    American gets 20-year sentence in S. Korea for 1997 ‘Itaewon murder’

    The Seoul Central District Court sentenced Arthur John Patterson, a U.S. citizen, to 20 years in prison Friday after finding him guilty of the stabbing death of Korean student Cho Joong-pil at a Burger King restaurant 19 years...

    • Posted January 29, 2016
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  • protest, UN
    UN rapporteur urges SKorea to stop violent crackdown on protesters

    SEOUL (Yonhap) — South Korea should stop the excessive use of force by police at rallies, the U.N. special rapporteur on the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and association said Friday. Sharing the preliminary findings and...

    • Posted January 29, 2016
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  • Government officials attend a ceremony at a port in Gunsan, southwest of Seoul, on Jan. 29, 2016, for the first rice export to China. The first shipment of 30 tons will leave the port next month for Shanghai, where they will be marketed at Lotte Market outlets. South Korea has been working for the last seven years to have rice exported to the neighboring country, hindered by quarantine requirements. (Yonhap)
    S. Korea to export rice to China for first time in Feb.

    SEJONG (Yonhap) — South Korea plans to export rice to China for the first time in February after both sides agreed on a set of quarantine requirements last year, the farm ministry said Friday. According to the...

    • Posted January 29, 2016
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  • ormer national ssireum champion Lee Man-gi (fourth from right, at podium) announces his intention to run for a parliamentary seat in Gimhae, South Gyeongsang Province, in this file photo taken on Dec. 21, 2015. (Yonhap)
    Former star athletes enter new arena at upcoming elections

    SEOUL (Yonhap) — Former star athletes will enter a whole different arena in the spring, when they will be vying for parliamentary seats in the general elections. Former ssireum (traditional wrestling) national champion Lee Man-gi will take...

    • Posted January 29, 2016
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